A Sales Engineer is a professional engineer with improved customer management skills who specialize in understanding, as much as possible, all the technical aspects of a technical product and explaining them to potential Global merchants providing guidance before, during or after the integration phase.

Some of the main duties of a Sales Engineer include consultancy on PayU products integration, supporting the sales process guiding the merchants until they put their solution in live environment, and committed with the merchant opportunities providing help for changes on the integration that may happen.

 

· In-depth knowledge of PayU products and features to provide subject matter expertise for merchant integrations regionally, as well as for the global PayU Hub.

· Maintain accurate and current PayU products and features knowledge for PayU GPO.

· Understand market trends and regulatory changes (previously notified) that may affect the merchant integrations, also familiarity and ease with online payments products and technologies.

· Assess the solution, the merchant requires, to see if the product meet the demands

· Review the technical aspects, related to the integration process, with the help of the specialized areas involved, when an RFP, RFI or technical assessment is required.

· Provide technical guidance during the entire integration process recommending the best practices of the industry and the product/services that fit the better to the merchant’s demands and the best way to approach the PayU product/services.

· Help clients to solve problems with product usage or suggest the best way of using them without suggesting direct changes over the merchant systems/code.

· Understand the PayU integration and sales cycle end to end and step in when any technical topic is raised, (that may affect the merchant’s integration).

· Join in (as outlined separately) the stages of the sales process:

Stage 1 opportunity verification (technical pre-assessment), NDA, RFI, or RFP.

Stage 2 technical assessment.

Stage 3 integration, and testing (as it says)

Stage 4 full launch / live (monitoring, integration support and then hand off to stake holders).

· Provide proposal support to the sales team specifically for product, technical and/or functional sections for RFI/RFP documents.

· Participate as a technical / integration expert on sales conference calls, prospect visits, at trade shows, conferences, and customer workshops (international travel might be required).

· Be able to work independently and/or in partnership with your non-technical Sales counterpart, and the different stakeholders that might be involved during the integration projects.

· Provide feedback loop and opportunity for improvements internally.

· When needed, raise features or product requirements as part of the quarterly planning process.

· Reduce the risk when changes to the integration of VIP* merchants need to be applied.

3. Commitment with merchant opportunities 

· Be able to communicate technical topics adjusting the speech on behalf of the stake holders

· Create and support demos, technical sales discussions, and technical testing.

· Ensure successful on-site and/or remote integrations which includes awareness of platform scaling requirements.

· Elaborate customized technical documentation (Statement of Work/Integration check list/Hand over) for the priority integration projects.

· Guarantee the quality the integration developed by the customer based on the platform knowledge.

· Give feedback on any correction or improvement that the customer must do on its integration.

· Provide expert assessment and consultation for interested prospects on PayU’s technological capabilities, product features and benefits.

· Interact with regional and global PayU Hub product teams for roadmap planning, and prioritization for new features/changes required by the global merchants.

· Provide feedback loop and opportunity for internal improvements.

· Testing new feature or product to be released by the Product or Engineering teams that were previously required by a VIP merchant.

· Perform merchants hyper care, analysing the transactional data of the merchant and how the integration behaves.

· Do merchant hand-off to the corresponding stakeholders.

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